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Descriptor English: Hemorrhagic Fevers, Viral
Descriptor Spanish: Fiebres Hemorrágicas Virales
Descriptor fiebres hemorrágicas víricas
Scope note: Grupo de enfermedades víricas de etiología diversa pero que tienen muchas características clínicas similares. En todas ellas se produce aumento de la permeabilidad capilar, leucocitopenia y trombocitopenia. Las fiebres hemorrágicas se caracterizan por comienzo súbito, fiebre, cefaleas, mialgias generalizadas, dolor de espalda, conjuntivitis y postración intensa, y posteriormente diversos síntomas hemorrágicos. La fiebre hemorrágica con participación renal es la FIEBRE HEMORRÁGICA CON SÍNDROME RENAL.
Descriptor Portuguese: Febres Hemorrágicas Virais
Descriptor French: Fièvres hémorragiques virales
Entry term(s): Fever, Viral Hemorrhagic
Fevers, Viral Hemorrhagic
Hemorrhagic Fever, Viral
Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
Tree number(s): C01.925.782.417
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006482
Scope note: A group of viral diseases of diverse etiology but having many similar clinical characteristics; increased capillary permeability, leukopenia, and thrombocytopenia are common to all. Hemorrhagic fevers are characterized by sudden onset, fever, headache, generalized myalgia, backache, conjunctivitis, and severe prostration, followed by various hemorrhagic symptoms. Hemorrhagic fever with kidney involvement is HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME.
Annotation: general or unspecified; prefer specifics; if renal involvement, disease is probably HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
TM transmission
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: specific hemorrhagic fever (1977)
Public MeSH Note: 78; was EPIDEMIC HEMORRHAGIC FEVER 1963-76; several specifics became headings & x-refs as of 1977
Online Note: use HEMORRHAGIC FEVERS, VIRAL to search EPIDEMIC HEMORRHAGIC FEVER 1966-76; search specifics 1977
History Note: 78; was EPIDEMIC HEMORRHAGIC FEVER 1963-76; several specifics became headings & x-refs as of 1977
DeCS ID: 6635
Unique ID: D006482
NLM Classification: WC 534
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1978/01/01
Date of Entry: 1977/05/13
Revision Date: 1996/06/10
Hemorrhagic Fevers, Viral - Preferred
Concept UI M0010174
Scope note A group of viral diseases of diverse etiology but having many similar clinical characteristics; increased capillary permeability, leukopenia, and thrombocytopenia are common to all. Hemorrhagic fevers are characterized by sudden onset, fever, headache, generalized myalgia, backache, conjunctivitis, and severe prostration, followed by various hemorrhagic symptoms. Hemorrhagic fever with kidney involvement is HEMORRHAGIC FEVER WITH RENAL SYNDROME.
Preferred term Hemorrhagic Fevers, Viral
Entry term(s) Fever, Viral Hemorrhagic
Fevers, Viral Hemorrhagic
Hemorrhagic Fever, Viral
Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers



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